Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 14:03:49 -0500 (EST) From: Tim Vanderhoek <ac199@hwcn.org> To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> Cc: "Russell L. Carter" <rcarter@consys.com>, shimon@simon-shapiro.org, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gnu/usr.bin/cvs/libdiff Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980128140142.320A-100000@ppp1682.on.bellglobal.com> In-Reply-To: <199801281840.LAA05323@mt.sri.com>
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On Wed, 28 Jan 1998, Nate Williams wrote:
> W/out any user intevention? Amazing how it requires users to build
> them, isn't it? Yes, it *could* all be automated, but the 'resources'
> required to do it is greater than requiring humans doing the work. Now,
> in a weird twist of fate, that is exactly the same thing I said.
Heh. Workers on a factory line are not users building their
cars. They are machines who just happen to have an advantageous
dexterity : cost ratio, as opposed to users who "understand the
build process".
--
tIM...HOEk
OPTIMIZATION: the process of using many one-letter variables names
hoping that the resultant code will run faster.
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